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    • M Offline
      Mra
      last edited by

      @thomthom said:

      @unknownuser said:

      Can't seem to turn off the "Edge loop" button, it is stuck!?

      It's a tool, the button stays down for as long as you use the tool. Activate another tool and the button goes back to its original state.

      Sorry for the late respsonse, but thanks for the reply!

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      • J Offline
        JPMays
        last edited by

        I'm really having trouble figuring out to use this tool, but please forgive my ineptitude. I first downloaded and installed this in order to select all faces that are at a certain orientation (as Thom lists in his initial post). However, I can't figure out how to actually do that. Additionally, even attempting to use the tool that selects all faces doesn't appear to work. what am I doing wrong/how do i select faces with a particular orientation?

        Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @jpmays said:

          I'm really having trouble figuring out to use this tool, but please forgive my ineptitude. I first downloaded and installed this in order to select all faces that are at a certain orientation (as Thom lists in his initial post). However, I can't figure out how to actually do that

          • Select a face
          • Right-click the face
          • Select > Coplanar Faces

          @jpmays said:

          Additionally, even attempting to use the tool that selects all faces doesn't appear to work.

          There is no function to select all faces. There is a function that filters out the current selection to include only the selected faces.

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • J Offline
            JPMays
            last edited by

            That's not exactly what I meant. See this thread http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=35393 that resolved the issue.

            Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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            • T Offline
              TheButtersShow
              last edited by

              πŸ‘

              Thanks! A Great Plugin.

              For my purposes most useful for digging through nested Components and groups and selecting only the particular entities I need without the time consuming process of having to explode or enter the context of every single one.

              πŸ‘

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              • 66searcher6 Offline
                66searcher
                last edited by

                @ thomthom:
                thanks for your great plugins.recently I've installed Sketchup 8 pro .and i have some kinds of problem with using selection toys ! many tools in toolbar are not loaded?!
                would u help!?


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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Do you get any error messages?

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • 66searcher6 Offline
                    66searcher
                    last edited by

                    πŸ˜‰ i found it out !
                    i haven't checked tools in UI ! πŸ˜„
                    thank u anyway πŸ‘


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                    • Al HartA Offline
                      Al Hart
                      last edited by

                      I have a suggestion for carrying over the name of the group as the name of the component definition as well:

                      The last three lines in this snippet:

                      		# Iterate through the rest of the copies
                      		protodef = proto.definition
                      		if (group_name != "")
                      			protodef.name = group_name
                      		end#if
                      
                      

                      It seems to work pretty well, and SketchUp adds #'s as needed to make the name unique.

                      Al Hart

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                      IRender nXt from Render Plus

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        I'll make a note of that. πŸ‘

                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • D Offline
                          danbig
                          last edited by

                          I think I'm still missing something simple on how to operate this incredibly helpful plugin.

                          I have a model with hundreds of instances of multiple components. I want to select all the instances of a single component definition. I cannot seem to get the plugin to do this; can someone go through the steps to perform this function?

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

                            Dan, this doesn't help you with the plugin I know but for something like what you want to do, couldn't you just right click on the component's thumbnail in the In Model component library and and choose Select Instances?

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              With the plugin, you should just right click on one instance and go to Instances > Select all or active (it can select instances even inside other components/groups)

                              Gai...

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                                danbig
                                last edited by

                                Hi Dave -

                                Yes, that would work. Thanks for the tip. I haven't used the component library to browse components in my model very much, so I wasn't aware of that function.

                                Gai - that's exactly how I'm trying to use the plugin, to no avail. I'm stumped.

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                                • Dave RD Offline
                                  Dave R
                                  last edited by

                                  FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    @dave r said:

                                    FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

                                    Can you provide a sammple model and/or video?
                                    Any errors in the Ruby Console?

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
                                      last edited by

                                      Maybe I'm using it wrong Thomas. I've tried selecting a component which I know has more than one instance. Then I click on the tool with the two green boxes. Nothing changes. I've tried getting the tool first and then clicking on a component. Nothing different there, either. I'll send you an example model though.

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        That button is to filter the selection.

                                        To select similar instances, use the context menu.

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        • Dave RD Offline
                                          Dave R
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks Thomas.

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                                          • leedeeteeL Offline
                                            leedeetee
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi,

                                            Could someone help me with this ...

                                            I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

                                            TT_Lib TT_Lib2

                                            and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

                                            SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

                                            What am I doign wrong?

                                            Thanks.

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